Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “And that was the nice thing about being the sole client of a multi-billion-dollar law firm.”

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252. “I’m not your penance, Grayson Hawthorne.”

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253. “Had the old man told his wife that their son was still alive? Had he known – or even suspected – the truth back when this will was written?”

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254. “Putting pants on a dog was not what one would call “easy”. Putting pants on a purebred, hundred-pound Bernese mountain dog who was fairly certain she did not want to wear pants could have substituted for one of the twelve labors of Hercules.”

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255. “Avery Grambs is not the result of infidelity on the part of our father, who was faithful to his beloved wife, our mother, for the entirety of their marriage.”

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256. “Toby wasn’t an idiot.” Jameson’s expression was sharp. “Unless this was some kind of suicide pact, he would have had a contingency plan to make sure that he and his friends weren’t caught in the flames.”

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257. “I thought about the news coverage of the fire. The suggestion that there had been a wild party that had spun out of control. The way that the tragedy had been blamed, again and again, on Kaylie Rooney, when the three upstanding young men had been partying straight out of rehab.”

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258. “She is one of us. We protect her.”

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259. “When words are real enough, when they’re the exact right words, when what you’re saying matters, when it’s beautiful and perfect and true – it hurts.”

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260. “We all play by rules our brothers will never even have to know.”

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261. “The Rooneys may run Rockaway Watch, but it’s a small town. They’re small people with a small reach, and the legal situation had already been taken care of. Toby could have come home, but he fought it.”

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262. “It’s not the things you can’t find that haunt you. It’s when you choose not to look.”

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263. “So,” Libby said sagely, “chess.” “Chess,” I repeated. “The move – it’s called the Queen’s Gambit. Whoever’s playing white puts that second pawn in a position to be sacrificed, which is why it’s considered a gambit.” “Why would you sacrifice a piece?” Libby asked. I thought about billionaire Tobias Hawthorne, about Toby, about Jameson, Grayson, Xander, and Nash. “To take control of the board,” I said.”

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264. “I told you she was special,” Jameson murmured as Grayson continued closing in on him. “And I told you to stay away from her.” Grayson stopped, just out of Jameson’s reach.”

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265. “From what I picked up during the remainder of the evening, Campbell Ames had a reputation for pulling “stunts like this”. It wasn’t entirely clear what constituted as a stunt, though I did gather that borrowing cars that didn’t belong to her and wearing white after Labor Day were both in Campbell’s repertoire.”

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266. “Xander smiled, and something about it made me want to cry. “Do you think it’s okay,” he said, sounding younger than I’d ever heard him, “that I loved playing those Saturday morning games? Loved growing up here? Loved the great and terrible Tobias Hawthorne?”

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267. “It always came down to power and control – who had them, who didn’t, who would lose them first.”

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268. “The only person I trust with all that I am and all that could be, Heiress, is you.”

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269. “Avery, did the ever-delightful Thea Calligaris happen to mention that her uncle is married to my aunt?” Zara’s last name was Hawthorne-Calligaris. “I hear Zara and your uncle are looking for ways to challenge the will.” Xander gave every appearance of talking to Thea, but I got the distinct feeling that he was really issuing a warning to me. Don’t trust Thea.”

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270. “H, the word is, two lowercase letters at the very end: v and e.”

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271. “I take it you’re Michael,” she said. “The emotion reader with the attitude problem who’s continually doing stupid things for girls.” “That’s hardly a fair assessment,” Michael replied. “I do plenty of stupid things that aren’t for girls, too.”

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272. “If I were a boy,” Thea told him with a Southern belle smile, “people would just call me driven.” “Thea.” Constantine frowned at her. “Right.” Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. “No feminism at the dinner table.”

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273. “I am an expert at not wanting to want things. But I’m starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I’m becoming – she’s not that girl anymore.” I’d been given the world. It was time to stop living scared, time to take the reins. It was time to take risks.”

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274. “Some people are smart. Some people are good.” He opened his eyes and put a hand on each of my shoulders. “And some people are both.”

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275. “Nee, ik heb geweigerd omdat degene die de klacht heeft ingediend, mogelijk iets in mijn kluisje heeft gelegd. – Tess.”

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276. “Personally, I find this turn of events delightful,” Max declared. “But you look like a motherfaxing deer caught in motherfaxing headlights.”

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277. “My mind is more like a roller coaster inside a labyrinth buried in an M. C. Escher painting that is riding on another roller coaster.”

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278. “Everyone is a little wrong sometimes, Heiress.”

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279. “The next thing I knew, she was gone.”

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280. “Grayson jerked to a halt, every muscle in his body taut. “Don’t you say her name.” His posture was angry, but his voice sounded like it was about to crumble. Like I’d gutted him. Not just Jameson. My mouth went dry. Emily didn’t just matter to Jameson.”

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281. “When you lose the remote control to your television, four percent of the time it ends up in the freezer!” Sloane blurted out loudly.”

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282. “But sometimes a person’s brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you’re inside that loop, you can’t see past it. You’ll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need – they’re outside the loop. Distractions aren’t just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop.”

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283. “I leave to Avery Kylie Grambs.”

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284. “My psychic senses,” Max announced, “are now attuned to that picture, and I’m getting some pretty clear messages about communing and abs.”

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285. “Well then, Heiress.” Jameson stepped forward. Standing directly to my side, he brought his lips down to my ear and whispered, “Game on.”

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286. “Between the fire and a storm that night,” Alisa said, once she’d recovered, “Toby’s remains were never definitively found.”

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287. “I could understand why my mother’s mother had called Tobias Hawthorne’s fortune blood money. Had he left it to me in part out of guilt?”

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288. “Someone told me once that fortunes like this one–at a certain point, it’s not about the money, because you couldn’t spend billions if you tried It’s about the power.” I looked down. “And I just don’t think anyone should have power like that, certainly not me.”

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289. “Why was my grandfather, a Texas billionaire with a whole host of private chefs on call, eating at a hole-in-the-wall diner in a small Connecticut town that no one’s ever heard of?”

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290. “Each word the dead man said made this entire situation feel that much eerier. How much of what had happened since he’d died had he foreseen? Not just foreseen, but planned, moving us all around like pawns?”

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291. “All I knew was that Skye had been right. Jameson was hungry. And so am I.”

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292. “Like, even in fiction, friends to lovers? Never my thing. I’m more star-crossed tragedy, supernatural soul mates, enemies to lovers. Epic, you know?”

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293. “I’ll have you know that most celebrity sites rank me as the second-hottest Hawthorne.” -Jameson.”

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294. “Everyone had things they found inexplicably attractive. Apparently, for me it was suit-wearing, silver-eyed guys using the word ‘empirically’ and taking for granted that I knew what it meant.”

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295. “Let the rest of the players think I’m dealing with daddy issues. Hawthornes have grandaddy issues instead.”

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296. “Adopting my haughtiest look, I leaned toward my sister and raised my warm nuts high.”

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297. “Nothing has to matter unless you let it.”

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298. “If you want, Mystery Girl, you can start calling me Mystery Boy.” -Jameson.”

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299. “Is it smash the patriarchy? I hope it’s smash the patriarchy.”

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300. “Did Jameson tell you that I killed her?”

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